Battle of Romanovka

Battle of Romanovka
	Part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, Russian Civil War
	; American troops marching through Vladivostok in 1918, Japanese troops stand at attention on the left
Date	June 25, 1919
Location	Romanovka, Siberia, Russia
Result	American victory Soviet attacks repelled;
Belligerents
United States	Russia (Bolshevik)
Commanders and leaders
Lawrence Butler (WIA); James Lorimar	Yakov Tryapitsyn
Strength
~72, plus a platoon of reinforcements	~400
Casualties and losses
24 killed; 25 wounded	41-57 dead or missing; Unknown wounded

The Battle of Romanovka was fought in June 1919 during the Russian Civil War. Russian Bolsheviks of Yakov Tryapitsyn launched a surprise attack on an American army camp at Romanovka, near Vladivostok. As a result of the engagement, the attacks were repelled. Romanovka and the Suchan Valley Campaign that followed were the final major engagements of the Russian Civil War involving the United States. Battles would later break out again between the Americans and Soviets, as well as the Cossacks, on much smaller scales. Likewise, the Americans were invariably victorious.

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